Sheep handling equipment recommendations?

[Yale]

Rappa here.

Wouldn't have anything else for what we use it for.

 

[CornishLleyn]

Rappa here.

Wouldn't have anything else for what we use it for.

Out of interest, what have you got?

 

[Yale]

Out of interest, what have you got?

Rappa.

 

[Moorlands]

We have a similar set up to this with more hurdles best thing we've ever bought for sheep job will have had it 20 years and still as good as day we bought it, no where near price of prattley and the likes.

Tony binns livestock equipment

 

[CornishLleyn]

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Rappa.

Got the Rappa bit, was just wondering which system..

 

[CornishLleyn]

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We have a similar set up to this with more hurdles best thing we've ever bought for sheep job will have had it 20 years and still as good as day we bought it, no where near price of prattley and the likes.

Tony binns livestock equipment

Looks good, but the thing I love about Rappa (and all the ali systems) is how much you can do single handed - I can gather a couple of hundred just by putting a food trough in and pulling the hurdles round in a clean sweep.

 

[Yale]

Out of interest, what have you got?

Got the Rappa bit, was just wondering which system..

10ft race,20x7ft hurdles and 2x8ft single handling race.

 

[Al R]

10ft race,20x7ft hurdles and 2x8ft single handling race.

What size flocks will that hold? I see no advantage in a double race system unless dosing 500+ in a couple of holdings?

 

[Yale]

What size flocks will that hold? I see no advantage in a double race system unless dosing 500+ in a couple of holdings?

Bit of a how long is a piece of string thing.

Where we have big gangs we work off the end of old dilapidated holding pens.

Personally if I had one or two places with big gangs I would put up two 50metre rolls of netting,one above the other overlapping on a curve adjacent to an existing boundary with a gate at one end.

You then set up the Rappa on the end and are not struggling for spare hurdles for shedding pens etc.

 

[Willie adie]

why not have what the person i work for has,
timber pens with all the uprights holding the gates rotten, leading to gates hanging off one hinge if lucky, and tow, wire banding, old dog leads, and an ything else that may be scraped up from yard ground used as the other hinge,
if you have broken rails on the race system, like his one does broken, rotten just bang in longer nails to the rotten posts rather than buy new timber,
or use sheep hurdle gate to patch the worst bits then leave yourself short of hurdles for lambing etc,
you can also have a gulliotine gate , so called as it attempts to remove fingers at every opening and closing of it, it is specially un lubricated , for the more discerning user,
then you can have a plastic footbath in the race section that you allow to sit with water in it so sheep wont go through it.
and best of all you can have it so it isnt high enough for wild mules,

Oh and how about this after so long the person that works for yoh gets so pissrd off with it. Thry scavenge offcut timber. Then attach two pieces to each side of the post.with threaded rod to enable the pushing gate to race mouth to be remounted on hooks rather than tied. And when it is working again allow yoyr kids to swing on it

 

[irish dom]

why not have what the person i work for has,
timber pens with all the uprights holding the gates rotten, leading to gates hanging off one hinge if lucky, and tow, wire banding, old dog leads, and an ything else that may be scraped up from yard ground used as the other hinge,
if you have broken rails on the race system, like his one does broken, rotten just bang in longer nails to the rotten posts rather than buy new timber,
or use sheep hurdle gate to patch the worst bits then leave yourself short of hurdles for lambing etc,
you can also have a gulliotine gate , so called as it attempts to remove fingers at every opening and closing of it, it is specially un lubricated , for the more discerning user,
then you can have a plastic footbath in the race section that you allow to sit with water in it so sheep wont go through it.
and best of all you can have it so it isnt high enough for wild mules,

Sounds ideal. Eould be an upgrade for some pf the tubes i shear for

 

[Yale]

why not have what the person i work for has,
timber pens with all the uprights holding the gates rotten, leading to gates hanging off one hinge if lucky, and tow, wire banding, old dog leads, and an ything else that may be scraped up from yard ground used as the other hinge,
if you have broken rails on the race system, like his one does broken, rotten just bang in longer nails to the rotten posts rather than buy new timber,
or use sheep hurdle gate to patch the worst bits then leave yourself short of hurdles for lambing etc,
you can also have a gulliotine gate , so called as it attempts to remove fingers at every opening and closing of it, it is specially un lubricated , for the more discerning user,
then you can have a plastic footbath in the race section that you allow to sit with water in it so sheep wont go through it.
and best of all you can have it so it isnt high enough for wild mules,

This made me chuckle.

However sometimes you just have to get a machine and flatten the place then it forces you to make better choices.

I know where you are coming from,it's just case of grabbing the bull by the horns and changing things.

 

[Kelso690]

why not have what the person i work for has,
timber pens with all the uprights holding the gates rotten, leading to gates hanging off one hinge if lucky, and tow, wire banding, old dog leads, and an ything else that may be scraped up from yard ground used as the other hinge,
if you have broken rails on the race system, like his one does broken, rotten just bang in longer nails to the rotten posts rather than buy new timber,
or use sheep hurdle gate to patch the worst bits then leave yourself short of hurdles for lambing etc,
you can also have a gulliotine gate , so called as it attempts to remove fingers at every opening and closing of it, it is specially un lubricated , for the more discerning user,
then you can have a plastic footbath in the race section that you allow to sit with water in it so sheep wont go through it.
and best of all you can have it so it isnt high enough for wild mules,

Sounds the business, where do I get one and how much are they?

 

[Nithsdale]

Sounds the business, where do I get one and how much are they?

Iv one here you could have...

Buyer collects. £40/meter would be fair. I will throw in all the structural string, for free

 

[Willie adie]

Sounds the business, where do I get one and how much are they?

Well i would suggest Syria. It wouldnt be out of place there

 

[shearerlad]

@Jim75 how does your scotpen jack up and down?
My 3m trailer used to use a vertical lift farm jack which I hated. FIL modified it to work like a prattley.

Totally agree that it is a great system and sheep run through it well. Much stronger than all the competition too.

 

[Tim W]

@Jim75 how does your scotpen jack up and down?
My 3m trailer used to use a vertical lift farm jack which I hated. FIL modified it to work like a prattley.

Totally agree that it is a great system and sheep run through it well. Much stronger than all the competition too.

Agree-- I have a scotpen and a poldenvale & have used the prattley etc
Scotpen is the strongest and has served us well ---the jack system is the only fault
Can you post pics of your modifications @shearerlad ?

 

[shearerlad]

We bought a 3m Scotpen mobile system in April 2007. Very happy with it once it is set up to use but getting the wheels off was very difficult verging on dangerous with one of those vertical lift farm jacks.

With huge thanks to my father in law, I now have a Scotpen system with the easy of a prattley/rappa

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Post from another sheep mobile system thread.

Steel was approx £120, winch and springs are genuine prattley and were £380. Bottle of single malt for FIL

 

[Jim75]

@Jim75 how does your scotpen jack up and down?
My 3m trailer used to use a vertical lift farm jack which I hated. FIL modified it to work like a prattley.

Totally agree that it is a great system and sheep run through it well. Much stronger than all the competition too.

It's on a bottle jack idea where it keeps pushing down to raise the trailer off the ground. Some of the highest hurdles on a scotpen compared to rappa or prattley which look too easy to leap over.

 

[Gator]

+1 as @sheptastic said, combi clamp at the end of prattley